User blog comment:Semerone/Adopting Zenki Wiki/@comment-27493717-20180409194745

Migration/Merge instead of Adoption
Here's an update on the situation regarding the adoption.

We won't be able to adopt Zenki Wiki, but JoePlay from the Wikia/FANDOM staff told me, that we might be able to merge communities, just as BrainDeadZero kindly told us earlier.

So, I think, that it was good, that Zenki already migrated the information to his blog, and that we already merged 50 % of the Zenki Wiki content with our own.

As such, we are making good progress and might be able to proceed with a merge instead of an adoption.

This would mean, that once I contact the staff via a contact formular Zenki Wiki would no longer exist in the way it currently does. Instead, it would redirect to our Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia.

Conversion with JoePlay
I am currently having a conversation with JoePlay, because this will be the first time I am merging wikis.

This means, I have never performed a wiki merge before.

Now, I am glad, that BrainDeadZero told us about the possibility of merging communites. Zenki and myself had already read the merging communities help page when he created his blog, so we were already able to merge 50 % of Zenki Wiki's content with our own.

As there are only 4 pages worth of content and most of the information was already present on Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia (due to both wikis being on the same topic and our's being the way more extensive one), we will likely finish the merge soon.

I don't know, if we need to complete merging the content before we can ask the staff to redirect Zenki Wiki to Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia, or if it's already enough, that Zenki made his blog, where he gathered the information, so we can just proceed with the redirect at the same time as we continue our merge.

This is why I am talking to JoePlay, as I don't know, if we are already able to proceed, or if the merge needs to be completed first.

No Chibi Zenki Wiki
If we decided to merge Zenki Wiki and Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia, I would suggest us also scrapping the idea of making a Japanese Chibi Zenki Wiki and instead go with interlanguage links for Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia.

This means, we would have an additional, German version of Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia and an additional, Japanese version of Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia.